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John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Warren Buffett
Trying, Keynes, Figures

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

George Soros
Kind, Economic, Keynes
George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.372, John Wiley & Sons

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

Ralph Raico
Lovers, Communist, Keynes

There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.

Joan Robinson
Elements, Keynes, Theory
Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Terry Pratchett
Responsibility, Keynes, Milton
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.44, Harper Collins

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

Paul Samuelson
Catholic, Cafeteria, Keynesianism

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